Shelley baked her rice flour snickerdoodles recipefor a new friend as a thank you. But little did she know that she now has made those rice flour cookies as a thank you for me!

No more wasted money since I can be thrifty and make this rice flour recipe for cookies at home.

The kids and I thought that her snickerdoodles cookies recipe was fantastic and just as good as the ones that I find at the store.

I’m sure you’ll love them, too!

So what’s a snickerdoodle anyway?

I bet you don’t know the difference between a sugar cookie and a snickerdoodles cookie. Both cookies are made with flour, sugar, butter or oil, and sometimes eggs. However, sugar cookies are rolled in sugar.

Snickerdoodles are rolled in a combination of sugar and cinnamon. Yep, that’s the difference – cinnamon!

(Though according to several people in my comments section, cream of tartar is a must in gluten free snickerdoodle cookies, too.)

According to Wikipedia, The Joy of Cooking claims that snickerdoodles are probably German in origin. They speculate that the name is a corruption of the German word Schneckennudel, which is a type of pastry.

There’s also a possibility that snickerdoodle is just a nonsense word originating from a New England tradition of wacky cookie names.

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21 thoughts on “Rice Flour Snickerdoodles Cookie Recipe”

I substituted with coconut oil and honey as a sweetener. I ended up having to use 2cups of homemade rice flour. Very crumbly but moist at the same time. I’m gonna have to play around with this a little cause I think the honey adds a different dynamic to the mixing process. Still good, and my kid liked it, so I’m happy!

So I found my self using 3 times as much of my homemade rice flour and also using 3 teaspoons of baking POWDER and it worked out just fine if any body would like to try this recipe. The cookies rose and spread. Hope this helps!

Heather, my mother-in-law has celiacs and I’ve been cooking for her for 13+ years (and way before I developed a sensitivity to gluten). So thanks for recommending my blog to her. Have her check out Udi’s Gluten Free’s community site, too! Lots of great info and recipes there, too.

Oh, yay! I am so glad that you liked these, and that they passed the test of true gluten-free-snickerdoodle fans! And very good to know about the white rice flour – I have very little gluten-free experience, but that happened to be what I had, so it’s good to know that it makes a difference. Thanks for the lovely post!